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Nan, in the Island, 18 December 2022, where the title runs thus: 

 I had met, listened to, read, and spoken to Elmo Jayawardena. Admired him very much too. He invariably brought his wife into any public address he made or personal conversation. Hence my emails conveyed my regards to Dil though I had not met her. Then I did. I invited the two of them to visit and as she stood in my doorway smiling so friendly, I immediately warmed to her. I felt she was a friend I knew so well. I was struck by the fact that there was no remarkably outstanding facial feature in Dil but she was truly beautiful, very beautiful. I surmised her loveliness was because her warm and generous personality shone through. She gives the impression of sincere friendliness and puts one at ease.

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Malinda Seneviratne in Malinda’s Blog Spot, December 2022, where the title runs thus “Truth in 2031, reconcilaition and how?”

The early versions of Udayasiri Wickramaratne’s celebrated theatrical piece ‘Suddek Oba Amathai (A white man addresses you) contained a short soliloquy, ‘Baya Vunu Minisek Oba Amathai (A scared man addresses you).’ The man was essentially scared of two things: a) that he would speak the truth even when he wanted to deceive, and b) that he would do the right thing by mistake.

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AFP News item: 15 September 2022, where the title runs thus “EU lawmakers say Hungary no longer a ‘full democracy’,”

Hungary was described as “a hybrid regime of electoral autocracy” in “serious breach” of EU democratic norms”

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Rajiva Wijesinha,  being Chapter 7, entitled “The Riots of 1983,” in his book JR Jayewardene’s Racism, Cold War Posturing and the Indian Debacle, …. pubd in 2021 by Godage & Co 

The initial outbreak

The sixth anniversary of the election of 1977 fell on July 22^nd. JR summoned his conference for the week previous to that. But not one single opposition party turned up, only his own UNP and Thondaman’s CWC. The absence of the others made it clear that no one was willing to continue playing a game in which the President not only held ail the cards, but also changed the rules as and when he required.

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INTERVIEW: M.A. SUMANTHIRAN ……‘They kept denying that there was a crisis’

R.K. RADHAKRISHNANIN COLOMBO  Print edition : April 22, 202

M.A. Sumanthiran: “… the triggering of this crisis seems to be the heavy tax cuts that were introduced soon after Gotabaya Rajapaksa became President…. As much as 33 per cent of the people fell outside the tax net as a result…. Once it starts sliding, you can’t pull it back.” Photo: Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP

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Michael Roberts

This work is one that never came into my orbit and it is chance today that brought it to my attention …. and in recent correspondence Niggy aka Nirgunan Tiruchelvam in Singapore praised the work. So, let me present its “frontal view” and encourage readers to comment on its data and approaches.

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